Our Home Roast Rocks!

Here at Sandlake Country Inn, we take coffee seriously! Ron has been roasting our green beans about 4 years now. The beans we purchase are organic, AAA & free trade! Even our home roast decaf is chemical free using the Swiss water system.

Enjoy Ron's home roast which we deliver to your door before breakfast, and for the rest of your day if you ever want a great cup of coffee, just help yourself to our 24 hour beverage table. There we have a Flavia beverage system with a variety of coffees. We also have a large variety of Stash Teas which are a local Oregon company.

Sandlake Country Inn is a certified "Green Lodging" property and we are proud of being able to offer luxury accommodations which are able to meet green standards. Whenever possible we purchase products made in Oregon. Not only does it help stimulate our state's economy, but it's a great way to lower our carbon footprint. The least distance a product has to travel the better it is for the environment.

Earth Day, April 22, 2010

Earth Day and Being Green

It's been encouraging to see how going "green" has become mainstream. We still have a long way to go as a society, but Oregon businesses have really been in the forefront.

We have been using green practices for many years here at Sandlake Country Inn, but now with the help of the Oregon Bed and Breakfast Guild's partnership with the group Sustainable Travel International, we became a certified "Green Lodging Establishment"in 2008! Be careful of those businesses who are "green washing"! That's the practice of just claiming they're green but are not able to provide proof.

Going "Green" doesn't have to mean that you can't enjoy luxury! In fact, most of our guests over the years have no idea that when they stay with us we are a "green" property.

Since we purchased the inn 9 years ago, we have made a commitment of our business practices to promote the sustainability of our planet's natural resources. Here are a few things we have done to help

• Compost
• Recycle
• Buy locally when possible
  
• Use environmentally friendly cleaning products with all natural ingredients
  
• Use durable products instead of throw away
• Use e-mail for most all business communications
  
• All bubble baths, soaps & lotions are environmentally friendly...no chemicals, all natural products
• Purchase our lotions & bubble bath in bulk & provide each guests room with reusable glass containers instead of disposable travel bottles
• When an appliance breaks, we've replaced it with an energy efficient appliance.
• Purchased a TerraPass for each of our vehicles to eliminate it's carbon footprint
• Replaced light bulbs wherever possible with florescent or LED blubs
• Encourage our guests to reuse their towels if they feel comfortable doing so
• Reusable grocery bags when shopping (Costco has great ones 3 in a pack for $4.00)

Come celebrate Earth Day 2010 with us! We'll show you how our Oregon Coast Lodging mixes green practices and affordable without any hassles or attitude!

Green Lodging Certification

It's official, Sandlake Country Inn is now a certified green lodging property! What does this mean? It means that we have met the guidelines of the Oregon Bed and Breakfast Guild's "Green Inspection Program". This program has been developed with a partnership with Sustainable Travel International.

Going "Green" doesn't have to mean that you can't enjoy luxury! In fact, most of our guests over the years have no idea that when they stay with us we are a "green" property.

Since we purchased the inn 7+ years ago, we have made a commitment of our business practices to promote the sustainability of our planet's natural resources. Here are a few things we have done to help

• Compost
• Recycle
• Buy locally when possible
  
• Use environmentally friendly cleaning products with all natural ingredients
  
• Use durable products instead of throw away
• Use e-mail for most all business communications
  
• All bubble baths & lotions are environmentally friendly...no chemicals, all natural products
• Purchase our lotions & bubble bath in bulk & provide each guest room with reusable glass containers instead of disposable travel bottles
• When an appliance breaks, we've replaced it with an energy efficient appliance.
• Purchased a TerraPass for each of our vehicles to eliminate it's carbon footprint
• Replaced light bulbs whenever possible with florescent or LED blubs
• Encourage our guests to reuse their towels if they feel comfortable doing so
• Reusable grocery bags when shopping (Costco has great ones 3 in a pack for $4.00)
  

We will soon make Green Tags available to our guests who want to help mitigate the carbon footprint of their trip. Sustainable Travel International is providing U.S.-based Green Tags from the portfolio of activities managed by the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. BEF is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping stabilize our rapidly changing climate by providing high-quality, Green-e certified renewable energy certificates they call Green Tags. BEF operates projects that meet strict eligibility and performance criteria based on national standards.